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The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.
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Poor baby, what a world to come into.
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John Wyndham |
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We have had a glorious past--but a glorious past is bitterness for a child with a hopeless future."
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John Wyndham |
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Fate is not above using inconsiderable details for her obscure purpose.
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John Wyndham |
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There's nothing more egocentric than a cat."
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John Wyndham |
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It's better to have a pistol you don't want, than to want a pistol you've not got."
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John Wyndham |
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Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there."
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John Wyndham |
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'We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.'
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John Wyndham |
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Wondering why one's friends chose to marry the people they did is unprofitable, but recurrent.
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John Wyndham |
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Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?"
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John Wyndham |
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We ourselves have a tradition of taking beatings, and then winning wars," said Bocker.
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John Wyndham |
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WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT !
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John Wyndham |
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Unfortunately there were certain persons with elastic principles.
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John Wyndham |
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This isn't a nice cosy world for anyone--especially not for anyone that's different," he said.
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John Wyndham |
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'Nobody,' she said, 'nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.'
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John Wyndham |
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'The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.'
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John Wyndham |
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'The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.'
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John Wyndham |
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'Cruelty is as old as life itself.'
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John Wyndham |
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'And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?'
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John Wyndham |
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'If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. . . .'
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John Wyndham |
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Pretty girls are lovely as the flowers in May, but there are so many flowers in May.
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John Wyndham |
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the vitriol throwers and smilers with knives
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John Wyndham |
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If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights."
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John Wyndham |
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We shan't get homo superior without any birth-pangs."
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John Wyndham |
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You owe it to your self-respect to spend a lot of money on yourself.
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John Wyndham |
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One got tired, and not infrequently a little stupid, by the end of a shift.
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John Wyndham |
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Most births are painful, and none are pretty."
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John Wyndham |
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The frustrations are still buzzing about, and soon they are going to find a new place to swarm."
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John Wyndham |
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He listened closely, and nodded several times, though not always where a nod seemed appropriate.
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John Wyndham |
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Five hundred and eighty-four days is a long time to be stuck on a mudbank."
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John Wyndham |
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I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.
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John Wyndham |
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An open mind is a difficult thing to keep."
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John Wyndham |
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Everybody ought to be able to swim.
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John Wyndham |
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It's all pretty simple if you don't give a damn who gets hurt in the rush.
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John Wyndham |
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Primitive man would see every one of us as a magician.
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John Wyndham |
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One man's trash is another's souvenir.
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John Wyndham |
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The thing is to play your own game - not let the other feller force you to what he wants."
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John Wyndham |
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There is a degree of odds against which a gambler becomes just another mug.
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John Wyndham |
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I suppose we all have a number of carefully furnished, non-communicating rooms in our minds.
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John Wyndham |
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Dying," observed the doctor, "is such a very ordinary thing to do."
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John Wyndham |
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Sooner or later the amateur always overreaches himself.
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John Wyndham |
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Other things than to fight, there is, even for dragons."
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John Wyndham |
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No discovery is good or evil until men make it that way."
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John Wyndham |
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In the profession of wifehood the exams begin at the church door--and there is never a final degree.
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John Wyndham |